Your love for Wondermegas is equal to my love for the Sharp X68000.
I only have two X68000s, but I always want more.
It's a disease.
I don't blame you. X68ks are sexy beasts with amazing games. Absolutely beautiful machines.
I flip flopped many times on the idea of getting one or two 68ks, but I don't think I'd be able to really appreciate it because I'd always be
irrationally nervous about using one.
I've had far too many bad experiences in the past with 5.25s going bad on me, such that it's affected me. Even though the general consensus is that you'll be fine and should have nothing to worry about, just can't help the feeling if this read might be the last.... or if the sounds of the drive heads sound just a bit diff from last time... that will make me apprehensive and or give me flashbacks of read drive failures/errors.
Also from what I've read, not all games can run from an HDD.
Modding one to read from a simulated drive on a SD card or something similar sounds better... but I dunno. If I'm going through the trouble of using real hardware, I'd wanna use the real physical games. Sure it's like using a flashcart. I've got flashcarts, but I actually only use them very rarely. Mostly for hacked/patched games.
I have the same problem with famicom disk games and FM Towns Marty games that need a 3.5 disk.
However, props to all you guys with real, working x68ks.
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